Late Sunday reading

Or maybe for the week. :)

A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life: it's all about the love and your relationships.

Consciousness After Death: Strange Tales From the Frontiers of Resuscitation Medicine: what is death? When do you become dead?

How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain: living in intersections.

Arriving at Auschwitz, October 4, 1944: From the Diary of Helga Weiss: History will never forget. 

Helga's Diary: Holocaust survivor Helga Weiss relives her story (video)

In the dark: Dark matter is the commonest, most elusive stuff in the universe. Can we grasp this great unsolved problem in physics?

Exploring the therapeutic effects of yoga and its ability to increase quality of life

LIfe: just a thought

If you want to get somewhere in life, no one is going to do the pushing for you. You have to push yourself.

Anonymous.

Sunday reading

Silicon Is the New Ivy: is Stanford the Harvard of the 21st century? The catalyst power of universities. 

Eighth grader designs standardized test that slams standardized tests: she says it all. 

Man Brilliantly Quits His Job to Pursue Dream Job With Resignation Letter Written on a Cake: creativity and passion.

News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier: my take? Be conscious of the filter through which you're seeing reality. 

20 of the best bargain beach holidays for 2013: Portugal, of course.

There is no mental illness (or maybe there is)

Mad, or bad? : Even in the decade of dissent, Thomas Szasz stood alone when he attacked the concept of madness from the political right

The case of Szasz. Read it carefully.

The end of sleep?

Following other posts (here and here) about sleep and all that it entails, here's an excellent article on the illusion and trendable movement towards living without sleeping, kind of.

The end of sleep?: New technologies are emerging that could radically reduce our need to sleep - if we can bear to use them

Content citizens

Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell

Reading suggestion

Another great piece about this that makes us humans. 

This is humankind: if my grandfather could survive the Siege of Leningrad and still distinguish between a German and a Nazi, then so can I

Liver disease in Canada: a crisis in the making

Here's a very interesting report on liver disease for the period of 2000-2007 in Canada.

Some striking figures:

The costs of treatment of liver disease are high. A course of treatment for hepatitis C may cost $20,000-70,000 depending on the subtype of the virus (genotype). Treatment of hepatitis B may cost between $7,000-9,000/year for 10-20 years or more. Drug treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma costs $6,000/month. Liver transplantation costs upwards of $100,000 per case with ongoing costs for medical care and immunosuppressive drugs.